Posts Tagged Film Score

Jonny Greenwood Phantom Thread (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Nonesuch If The Master soundtrack was where it was confirmed that Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood was more than moonlighting, was in fact an actual film score composer, then his soundtrack for Phantom Thread certainly builds on that; is in fact his finest film score to date.

V/A, Great Warner Bros. Love Themes (1979) As it says really – a collection of soapy, soppy, floppy, lovely, syrupy Love Themes from movies from (mostly) the 1970s. Some big name composers that worked for big name directors on big blockbuster-types of the time. Henry Mancini and John Barry and Lalo Schifrin and Michel Legrand […]

Max Richter Out Of The Dark Room Milan The “post-classical” work of Max Richter was always going to be perfect for film soundtracks – his most famous composition, On The Nature of Daylight, continues to be an influence, for Richter (he’s re-used it as well as reinterpreting it, taking bits from it) across many of […]

I’m going to tell you a bit about my background with classical music; some of my early touchstones, how I educated myself and explored options, and some of the favourite pieces I’ve collected and my go-to composers. That sort of thing. And then you can do the same. Seem reasonable? Otherwise we’ll be here all […]

Rhian Sheehan We Are Stars [OST] 360.com Fans of Rhian Sheehan’s music could sense both a fascination with space and with film scores – before he was ever overtly working in the industry. Well, it was never hidden, more a preoccupation. Those two vestiges come together perfectly for this aspect of his occupation here, with […]

Geoff Love and His Orchestra, Big Terror Movie Themes (1976) I didn’t know he was Geoff Love at the time – or rather didn’t know who he was, whoever was at the helm of so many of these things, but I loved the records I found in my grandparents’ collections. Both sets of the grannies […]

Cliff Martinez, Solaris [OST] (2002) I was already a Cliff Martinez fan, I found out about him through bargain-bin CD shopping; I’d pick up $1 albums to try things out (the Spotify of its day/time, the YouTube of back-then). And so I found out at Martinez, he’d scored a couple of films I liked and […]

Various Artists: Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight [OST] Verve Even when I have been less enamoured with the finished film product I’ve still been impressed with the soundtracks from Quentin Tarantino films – as it happens I rather loved The Hateful Eight – but waited to hear its soundtrack for the first time up on […]

Zombi Shape Shift Relapse Drummer A.E. Paterra and keyboardist/multi-instrumentalist Steve Moore are back as Zombi – and back for the first time in nearly a decade making music in the same room together. Here, with their latest album we’re reminded of their film-score fixation (Mission Creep feels like something by John Carpenter as interpreted by […]

Ennio Morricone, The Mission [OST] (1986) I’ve picked up a couple of nice Ennio Morricone scores recently – Il Vizieto and Cinema Paradiso – but this was the one I was after…have seen it about on vinyl before, but now I’ve got it. I had the CD – and in fact it was the music […]

Antonio Sanchez Birdman [OST] Milan Records Birdman is a great film – filled with great performances. But a big part of the energy of the film is the drum-heavy score by Antonio Sanchez, it not only seemed to help in fuelling the performances (or at least our perception of them) but also jogs along within […]

Henry Mancini, Breakfast at Tiffany’s [OST] (1961) Another of my recent junk-shop finds. It plays just fine too. Good enough. And I’ve been enjoying this soundtrack so much that it made me re-watch the film. Has it stood up? No, not really – it’s slow, it drags, it’s quite absurd, there’s that terribly racist send-up, […]